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Ah, the point-and-click adventure game. The mere mention of that long-neglected genre brings back memories of a time when Lucasarts had more in their stable than Star Wars and Indiana Jones. A time when games were about linear progression, and having...

Released a full decade after the previous title in 1999, Tales of Monkey Island is the latest installment in the classic point-and-click adventure series developed by Telltale Games and published by Lucas Arts. Once again players take the...

The beloved adventure game franchise Monkey Island set sail on a new episodic journey earlier this year and has recently come into port with its fifth and final episode. Tales of Monkey Island chronicles the further adventures of Guybrush...

Please note if you havent played the previous episodes in the series, this review will contain some spoilers.The penultimate episode in the first series of the Tales of Monkey Island series left us with a number of unanswered questions. Could...

If the full season of Tales can keep up to this same high standard then it will be the best Telltale serial to date and will also be able to take its place alongside the classic LucasArts entries with pride. We can’t predict whether that will...

However, in amongst all that excitement were understandably fears of whether a brand new team could recapture the magic of the now old series. As Monkey Island magic isn’t just good graphics, a decent story and some witty one-liners: it’s...

Verdict: Tales of Monkey Island is a stupendous amount of fun and revives all the brilliant points of the classic original. Its almost 10 years since we last saw Guybrush Threepwood, the slightly inept pirate of the Monkey Island series, but hes...

It would be hard not to write a review of this chapter without publishing a few spoilers  but Ill try my best to keep most of it a secret so that those of you who want to play the game, arent discouraged.The game opens up as the...

As with the previous chapter, the game opens up with the Voodoo Lady giving an account of Guybrushs adventures and the current state of affairs. If you havent played Episode One or Episode Two, then you may want to play them first so that...

Before I can start to talk about Tales of Monkey Island, the five-part episodic adventure game made by TellTale Games in cooperation with LucasArts, I need to step into the way-back machine nearly twenty years and talk about one of the true...

Its been a long wait for the legions of fans of the Monkey Island series but this new episodic adventure maintains the madcap humour and style of the originals whilst giving the graphics a welcome boost and providing plenty of offbeat puzzles to tax...

Can Telltale Games reboot a series loved by every old school gamer out there while at the same time attracting new players? Break out yer swashbucklin gear and find out after the break says I!Full Review:The summer of 2009 is quickly becoming a...